A “real” grandchild versus adopted…

Unfortunately, there are folks who refer to children by birth as “real,” therefore suggesting that children by adoption are “artificial.”

My folks were not of those types and neither was my sister. When the local pharmacist said to my pregnant sister, “I bet your folks are glad to be getting a “real grandchild,” my sister quickly and firmly replied, “we think of BJ as a real grandchild and mine will be the second. “ See why I love my sister? What a gem!

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"In Germany, they first came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't sepak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me....and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Rev. Martin Niemoller(1892-1984) was a German Protestant minister and a leader of the church's opposition to Hitler. He was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937-1945. In the 1950s and 60s, he was West Germany's foremost pacifist and foe of nuclear armaments.